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Hello English learners! Welcome to EnglishPod My name is Marco.

And I’m Erica.

We’re bringing you a great elementary podcast today.

That’s right.

And we’re gonna be teaching you how to order pizza.

Yeah, you know, pizza is one of my favorite foods and the favorite food of many people.

Exactly, it’s one of those common foods that you’re at home and you want to order something to eat.

Yep.

And the typical thing is pizza.

Yeah, but you know there’s some very special language that you’ve gotta use, you’ve gotta know this language, ah, when you want to order a pizza.

Exactly, so, let’s listen to this dialogue for the first time as a man is ordering pizza.

Good evening, Pizza House. This is Marty speaking. May I take your order?

Um yes& I’d like a medium pizza with pepperoni, olives, and extra cheese.

We have a two-for-one special on large pizzas. Would you like a large pizza instead?

Sure, that sounds good.

Great! Would you like your second pizza to be the same as the first?

No, make the second one with ham, pineapple, and green peppers. Oh, and make it thin crust.

Okay, thin crust. Your total is $21.50 and your order will arrive in thirty minutes or it’s free!

B: Perfect. Thank you. Bye.

Sir, wait!! I need your address!

Okay, so I guess he is not getting his pizza.

No, he forgot to give his address.

That’s a bit of a problem.

Uhu.

Okay, let’s take a look at some of the vocabulary in “language takeaway”.

Language takeaway.

Alright, we’ve got some great pizza words for you today, um, and our first one we have is a medium pizza.

Medium pizza.

Medium pizza.

so that’s the size right

yeah.

medium you can say medium or

12 inch

12 inch usually a medium pizza is 12 inches

yeah so you could say I’d like a 12 inch pizza.

okay, for those of us who use centimeters this would be more or less 30 centimeters.

okay

all right let’s take a look at the next size a large pizza.

large pizza.

a large pizza.

so might also be called an 18 inch.

an 18 inch pizza or isn’t it sometimes called a family size

maybe

family size

I guess it depends where you’re ordering.

yeah okay so large and medium pizzas. now let’s take a look at some of the ingredients.

yes.

okay we have pepperoni.

pepperoni

pepperoni.

pepperoni

this is the common ingredient in all pizza.

it’s my favorite um a pizza is not a pizza unless it has pepperoni.

okay so pepperoni is like it’s a sausage right.

yeah it’s a little bit spicy

a little bit spicy

yeah

and they look like

like circles.

red circles

yup

okay olives.

olives

olives

olives

olives are little black or green balls.

yes little green or black balls. you, you can also find them in a martini.

yeah exactly.

yep.

it’s very common for them to have it’s very common to have an it’s very common to have an olive in a martini.

yeah

okay and he also ordered extra cheese .

extra cheese.

so that means more cheese.

ohm

extra

allright, another ingredient ham.

ham.

ham the meat of a pig.

yeah ham.

yep.

okay and he also ordered another strange ingredient for a pizza pineapple.

pineapple.

pineapple.

pineapple.

now this is a fruit.

I know it’s so weird to put pineapple on a pizza.

many people like pineapple on a on their pizza. it’s a tropical fruit.

yep, comes from hawaii.

usually and it kind of looks like a little palm tree

yeah like yeah the top of a pineapple looks like a tree.

ohm, so pineapple.

yep.

allright now the last description of a pizza he ordered it with thin crust.

thin crust.

thin crust.

thin crust.

now we know thin is

skinny

something skinny but crust, what is crust?

It’s the bread part of the pizza.

the outside part.

yep.

okay so that’s the crust.

that’s my favorite part of it.

really.

yeah.

thin crust or thick crust?

uh, thin crust, yeah thin crust and I just I really love that bread part it’s so important to a good pizza.

okay well you know they also have um they also have the crust filled with cheese

no it’s so wrong.

that’s good too.

no.

allright, let’s listen to our dialogue again and then we’ll come back and talk a little bit more.

Good evening, Pizza House. This is Marty speaking. May I take your order?

Um yes& I’d like a medium pizza with pepperoni, olives, and extra cheese.

We have a two-for-one special on large pizzas. Would you like a large pizza instead?

Sure, that sounds good.

Great! Would you like your second pizza to be the same as the first?

No, make the second one with ham, pineapple, and green peppers. Oh, and make it thin crust.

Okay, thin crust. Your total is $21.50 and your order will arrive in thirty minutes or it’s free!

B: Perfect. Thank you. Bye.

Sir, wait!! I need your address!

okay now we have some really polite language that you could use possibly with customers or with clients.

yep.

okay so let’s take a look at them in fluency builder.

fluency builder.

okay my all right the first phrase we have um I think is my favorite uh this is the way that marty answered the phone.

ohm

right he said this is marty speaking.

this is marty speaking.

this is marty speaking.

now why is it so important?

because a lot of people when they answer the phone say I’m erica

ohm

like hello I’m Erica.

ohm.

which is not what english people say. we always say Erica’s speaking.

ohm. this is erica speaking.

exactly so guys remember this you’ll sound really really great when you use this on the phone. this is marty speaking.

exactly this is marty. well don’t use marty use your name. all right then you also mentioned a two for one special.

two for one special.

a two for one special. so that means you’re getting two

pizzas, right

for the price of one.

ohm.

and a special is just a special promotion.

a special price.

special price.

yes.

two for one special.

right.

all right now a very easy phrase.

ohom

would you like.

would you like.

would you like .

would you like.

now this is a great way to offer something.

it’s a more polite way of asking, do you want?

do you want.

ohom

do you want is is okay.

yeah it’s fine.

but it’s less polite than would you like.

exactly.

so whenever you offer something, would you like a cup of coffee?

would you like to sit down.

okay,

yup

so would you like. let’s listen to our dialogue for the last time and then we’ll come back and talk about pizza from a pizza expert.

Good evening, Pizza House. This is Marty speaking. May I take your order?

Um yes& I’d like a medium pizza with pepperoni, olives, and extra cheese.

We have a two-for-one special on large pizzas. Would you like a large pizza instead?

Sure, that sounds good.

Great! Would you like your second pizza to be the same as the first?

No, make the second one with ham, pineapple, and green peppers. Oh, and make it thin crust.

Okay, thin crust. Your total is $21.50 and your order will arrive in thirty minutes or it’s free!

B: Perfect. Thank you. Bye.

Sir, wait!! I need your address!

all right. we’re back and we are here with our pizza expert who else but marco from italianpod. hi everyone

marco2, right?

marco 1, I am marco zero. he is marco one.

right

yes, we’ve come to an agreement. so zero what’s the deal about this, well we’re talking about pizza today and we wanted to know what’s your opinion since pizza comes from Italy right.

well thanks for the question first marco zero is my mic working.

it should be.

okay so uh the problem with pizza is that yes it comes from italy, originated the story goes we’ve know magerita. magerita

allright

but the problem is that now this confusion worldwide pizza and pizza hut american pizza italian pizza. that is not the same thing.

it’s not the same.

it’s not the same.

okay. so pizza hut is an italian pizza.

no no oh my god, so okay here it goes um italians a little bitter italians make food but they are not good at branding it.

okay.

americans are very good at branding the food.

ohm

so they have starbucks and pizza hut and blah blah blah. the problem is that since they have to brand it they don’t change the name.

hm.

so they do this pizza hut is totally different from italian pizza va how is it different have you ever seen the two of them have you ever compared them?

yeah yeah they are very different that’s true.

so okay can you put pineapple and ham on a pizza.

technically you could.

like it’s possible.

as long as you call it hawaiian.

you can put pineapple in everything I guess,

but the problem what I’m trying to say is that, okay italian pizza is you know you have the the flour the pea, the pasta, the pasta, pizza

the crust the crust.

the crust the tomato sauce and then the

peperoni

mozzarella cheese and that’s the basic and then you can put it on top of it with some variations. making pizza is basically take everything that you have on the table and put it on it.

ha-ha

M2: that’s the main difference but I’m not saying I’m against the american pizza. I’m saying that you just should change the name to another thing.

what do you suggest we should call it?

zipa, zipa, it’s close enough close enough yeah?

yeah, but maybe you need like an a like azipa.

azipa

to indicate that it’s american a for america.

om, maybe, a dot zippa,

a dot zipper.com.

oh can I have a a zipper. so marco I zipperpod.com maybe.

so margo i know that um that you are very much against having pizza hut pizza, um I like it as a as an exotic experience because I like the fact that it’s so much stuff in it that you cannot even tell the difference between the ingredients.

ha-ha

you know they have the super mega super,

super supreme

super supreme

with cheese and the crust.

I don’t even know what’s inside.

yeah

it’s great, it’s crazy it’s like there’s a part in my mouth and everybody’s invited them.

ha-ha

that’s for me the feeling.

well another interesting thing when we were eating with pizza with marco is that he noticed the way that people from different countries eat pizza.

that’s right italian people fold their pizza.

we do fold and another thing is that we have a whole pizza like if i order one pizza, it’s not like I share everybody has a one slice of it we order one pizza you order your pizza sure the her pizza and so on.

pizza is personal. pizza’s a personal.

don’t mess with my pizza marcus zero.

all right well this whole pizza discussion let’s see what our listeners have to say about it i know that we have listeners from all over the world and what do they do with their pizzas.

yes

or they’re zippers.

what do you like on your pizza.

exactly for example

how high do you want the crust to be?

thin,thin

how high, I know that for example you want your crust to be.

I know that for example in some countries they put ketchup on their pizza.

I know once i was uh eating like I had a japanese friend who ordered a pizza from pizza hut and the pizza had the pineapple and other stuff on it and then she took out like ketchup and mayonnaise.

oh no

like wild.

although I must tell you I like tabasco on my pizza and I know that’s wrong I know. I’m sorry.

yes.

but I like it.

you do what you have to do erica then you know history will judge you.

all right we better go we’re out of time and before marco has a heart attack or an aneurysm or something we’re making him angry here and if you have any questions for us and also for marco because I’m sure he’s going to be commenting on this aspect.

oh, sure.

so go to our comment section at englishpod.com.

and Marco and I ,Marco zero and I are always there to answer your questions. all right everyone

we’ll see you there.

goodbye

bye.